CEO uses cookie to avoid speaking to reporters

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When asked why he won’t stop and talk, he exclaims, “I’m still eating my cookie!”

The reporters offered to wait until he finished his cookie so he could comment but he instead responded with apparent irritation that “the media are not prepared to go to the media scrum,” a scheduled event that was scheduled to take place about 30 minutes after this confrontation.